We've now published the KB article for a new hotfix that arose from a customer case I was working on recently: FIX: Inline data-binding expressions in a templated web user control disappear after you generate a local resource for an ASP.NET 2.0 web application If after reading the article you want the...

I don’t do a lot of WinForms and WPF work but I came across this very handy article with some associated posters to compare WinForms and WPF both in .NET 3.5 / Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 varieties. And this is the direct link to the wallchart/poster. HTH Doug

One of the cases I've been working on recently is for an issue introduced by Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. The fix has now been finalised and released on the MSDN Code Gallery . When you get this error the symptoms are like this: You didn't have the problem before applying the service...

I find that dialogues tend to fall into four categories 1) Clear, obvious and helpful 2) Clear, obvious and unhelpful 3) Obscure but still helpful 4) Obscure and totally unhelpful I think this one falls into the first category. Have I missed any categories? As it turns out, it only took...

When Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Visual Studio 2008 came out it unfortunately introduced a problem whereby some localised IntelliSense text was reverted to English. This affects the following language versions of the service pack: Chinese (simplified and traditional), German, Spanish, French, Italian...

This sounds like a good deal. Free? Free? Sounds to good to be true :-). But it is. If you are a full time student and into software development, take a look: https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/Overview.aspx Check the site for details, but at time of writing the products included were: Visual Studio...

As ever, Scott Guthrie has the most comprehensive announcement blog about Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta but this is no ordinary service pack, this is a service pack packed [sic] with new features as well as fixes. For instance, there are major additions to WPF , IntelliSense...

My colleague Phil brought to my attention yet another release following on from the release of Visual Studio 2008 earlier this week.
The Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 allows developers to build extensions to the Visual Studio 2008 development environment and the Visual Studio 2008 Shell allows them to...

This missed my attention yesterday as they are not hosted off the download site. The Express Editions of the Visual Studio 2008 release are all available for download: http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/ You can either install them individually via the web installer or if you are really hungry...

A short time ago I blogged about the announcement of the release of Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. If you are looking for something to actually run, the VSTS2008 90-day trial is available for download here . All 3.9Gb of it. Phew! Don't try that over dial-up or else (apparently...

Looks like we may all be needing that training kit I blogged about earlier . Soma has just announced that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! I think we can expect lots more download links to go live in the coming hours and days and plenty more blog traffic too. I recently blogged about...